Our Futures Look Bright--Because We Reject the Possibility That Bad Things Will Happen

April 15, 2013

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People believe they'll be happy in the future, even when they imagine the many bad things that could happen, because they discount the possibility that those bad things will actually occur, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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